One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time - Craig Brown

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One Two Three Four: The

Beatles in Time
By
Craig Brown
HarperCollins Publishers
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the Year * A


Telegraph Book of the Year * A Sunday Times Book of the Year

From the award-winning author of Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of


Princess Margaret comes a fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic
biography of the Fab Four.

John Updike compared them to 'the sun coming out on an Easter


morning'. Bob Dylan introduced them to drugs. The Duchess of
Windsor adored them. Noel Coward despised them. JRR Tolkien
snubbed them. The Rolling Stones copied them. Loenard Bernstein
admired them. Muhammad Ali called them 'little sissies'. Successive
Prime Ministers sucked up to them. No one has remained unaffected
by the music of The Beatles. As Queen Elizabeth II observed on her
golden wedding anniversary, 'Think what we would have missed if
we had never heard The Beatles.'

One Two Three Four traces the chance fusion of the four key
elements that made up The Beatles: fire (John), water (Paul), air
(George) and earth (Ringo). It also tells the bizarre and often
unfortunate tales of the disparate and colourful people within their
orbit, among them Fred Lennon, Yoko Ono, the Maharishi, Aunt
Mimi, Helen Shapiro, the con artist Magic Alex, Phil Spector, their
psychedelic dentist John Riley and their failed nemesis, Det Sgt
Norman Pilcher.

From the bestselling author of Ma'am Darling comes a


kaleidoscopic mixture of history, etymology, diaries, autobiography,
fan letters, essays, parallel lives, party lists, charts, interviews,
announcements and stories. One Two Three Four joyfully echoes
the frenetic hurly-burly of an era.

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